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POPSWhat's The Worlds Fastest Supercomputer Used For? Regardless of what spurred the current biotechnology race, most experts agree that the logical end of the surge is a state of DNA-based medicine. In several decades, we could make an appointment with our doctor for a quick DNA analysis to find out what diseases we're at risk for and pop a single, gene-targeting pill that eliminates all of those foreseeable risks.
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POPSClipmarks copyright policy I made this clip because copyright is the first thing to have a look before clipping but I read the clipmarks copyright policy after I clipped a lot. I guess many of clippers did't go through this. Being a member of Clipmarks community I request you to open the link and read the clipmarks copyright policy..coz its for us.
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POPSWindows XP Service Pack 3: Try It If You Dare Recently, Microsoft downplayed the significance of Windows XP SP3. In a white paper posted to its Web site, the company praised Windows Vista at XP's expense, reminding users that Vista boasted beefed-up security, for instance. The spokeswoman also chimed in. "Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP," she said. That may be so, but according to a Florida performance testing software developer, XP SP3 is not only 10% faster than XP SP2, but more than twice as fast as Vista SP1, claims that Microsoft disparaged within days. XP SP3, in fact, is the newest version of Vista's biggest rival , according to Forrester Research. U.S. and European businesses will delay Vista deployment, Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray said a month ago......
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POPSApple is not immune to security issues I think Steve Jobs and Apple are finding out just how hard it is to keep popular products patched and secure. It's easy to make claims when your the underdog, but much harder when your platform is under scrutiny.
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POPSRobots Evolve And Learn How to Lie By the 50th generation, the robots had learned to communicate—lighting up, in three out of four colonies, to alert the others when they’d found food or poison. The fourth colony sometimes evolved “cheater” robots instead, which would light up to tell the others that the poison was food, while they themselves rolled over to the food source and chowed down without emitting so much as a blink. Some robots, though, were veritable heroes. They signaled danger and died to save other robots. “Sometimes,” Floreano says, “you see that in nature—an animal that emits a cry when it sees a predator; it gets eaten, and the others get away—but I never expected to see this in robots.”